Aurelia local notes mix travel births and business
Aurelia columns recount visits by Storm Lake and Cherokee residents, a baby birth on June 1, auto trips to Cherokee and Larrabee, a new automatic gas station, a Chautauqua date, and plans for a moving picture show. Community members Hugo Harold, H W Hanson, Abe Christy, Mrs. DeVries and others feature in social, banking, church and school updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Hanson
Aurelia Auto Co
Carrie Striker
Cherokee
Ellen Johnson
Mankato Commercial College
Mankato
Minn
Abe Christy
Alta
Notice of Separation and Debt Liability
Notice announces Henry Taylor will not be held liable for debts contracted by his wife Maria Taylor who has left his board and bed. The statement is dated 8-2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria Taylor
Henry Taylor
For Sale Two Scotch Collie Pups and Livestock Lot
For Sale two thoroughbred Scotch Collie pups listed by Cyril Mahoney at 911. For Sale registered Shorthorn bull three years old listed by Frank Dryer at 92. For Sale or Rent farm located one and a half miles northwest of Aurelia inquire Andrew Johnson Mangon Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyril Mahoney
Frank Dryer
Aurelia
Andrew Johnson
Mangon
Iowa
Ten Years Ago Notes From Pitcher Township and Cherokee
Ten years ago R S O Neal planned to travel to North Dakota for International Harvester work. Daniel McCarty of Afton township died at his Cherokee home after surgery in Sioux City. Frank Wieland married Jennie Bower at the M E parsonage. they left for Arlington South Dakota where Wieland runs a farm. New water system in operation though the power house remains to be finished. gas workers to complete lighting. Pitcher township stock buyer J H Green says cattle feeding has dropped to near none as cattle have been shipped out of Afton Pitcher and Diamond townships with only a few left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Ackers
Hawarden
Storm Lake
T. Neveln
LeMars
B. F. Swisher
Myrtie Swisher
Mildred Puffett
Storm Lake High School
Congregational Ladies Aid Society
Bert Waddell
C. R. Kleeberger
Sioux City
Norfolk
Nebraska
Kleeberger
L. L. Long
Northwest Iowa
M. E
Wm. Meisenhelder
Aileen
Hartford
South Dakota
Jacob Herold
S. J. Jordan
Sutherland
Congregational Church
C. W. Stark
Aurelia High School
Kleeberger & Dingman
B. Butterfield
Aurelia Sentinel
Butterfield
Daniel McCarty
Afton
Cherokee
Frank Wieland
Jennie Bower
Rev. Bond
M. E. Parsonage
B. Wieland
Arlington
Wieland
Pitcher
Diamond Townships
Ladies Cemetery Meeting at M E Church Basement
The Ladies Cemetery Association will meet Saturday afternoon at 3 o clock in the basement of the M E church. All ladies with wishes are urged to attend and collect them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Cemetery Association
M. E
Headless hen walks and lays egg for 12 hours after beheading
Ephraim Tucker, a Redlands California merchant, decapitated a hen due to gapes. The bird remained upright, moved, and even laid an egg before Tucker finished the job the next day, ending the strange case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corral
Ephraim Tucker
Eureka Street
Redlands
Cal
New York Herald
Tucker
Mortimer M. Jackson A Distinguished 19th Century Jurist
Mortimer M. Jackson born March 6 in Rensselaerville New York. He moved to Milwaukee at twenty four and practiced law. He helped organize the Whig party in the territory and opposed slavery expansion. He served as territorial attorney general for five years and was among Wisconsin's first circuit judges. He lost the 1857 Republican bid for US senator. Lincoln appointed him US Consul at Halifax in 1861, aiding the Civil War effort. He retired to Madison in 1882 and died in 1889.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mortimer M. Jackson
Rensselaerville
N. Y
Milwaukee
Territory
Wisconsin
United States
Halifax
Jackson
Madison
Wis
Measuring Man's Worth by California Doctor
Dr. Katherine M H Blackford spoke at the Efficiency society annual meeting describing how worth can be measured with 64 characteristics and qualifications. She cautioned against mistakes after recounting a dissat isfaction from a foreman about the methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine M. H. Blackford
The
Efficiency Society
Doctor Blackford
Foreman Reports Grim Gloom From Work Crew
The workmen under him measured up with cheerfulness and accuracy at 100 percent yet their gloom was so strong that the employer asked what the matter was. The foreman replied that they were “so darned gloomy.”
Strathcona Hosts Grand 1906 University Banquet
The late Lord Strathcona presided over Aber deen quartercentenary celebrations in 1906. He arranged a gargantuan banquet for about three thousand graduates and undergraduates, built a hall for the dinner, and shipped materials with 700 waiters from London in three trains. The event ran with flawless organization.
Preserving a Memento in a Washington HQ Tale
A stranger and Mr. Hrastus Pinkly discuss a house once linked to General George Washington. The building was torn down and relocated, leaving the inscription as a memory. Bacon vs. Baking features a San Francisco shopper seeking Bacon's Essays and being directed to cookbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Hrastus
San Francisco
Bacon
War on Ranch Pests Claims Big Prairie Dog Toll
Dr. A K Fisher of the biological survey reports more than 400000 prairie dogs gophers ground squirrels and mice killed in the government campaign of destruction. The forage saved could feed about 15500 sheep or 1600 to 1800 cattle worth at least 150000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. K. Fisher
Biological Survey of
Department of Agriculture
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Hamilton-Brown Shoes
Hamilton-Brown
Night
Dance of the Fairies
Erik Meyer
Helmund
Louis Gregh
Earl Hoon
Oran Parrott
A. G. Whitney
Sioux City, Ia
Lucile Green
Miss Pearl Fishbach
Bartlett
Iolanthe
Trovatore High School
Roger
Aed
Sity
Ank
Peoples Store
W. R. Robinson
W. A. McLaughlin
Schaller
Mrs. C. DeVries
Walter Stevenson
Quimby
G. B. Scott
R. T. Hill
Larrabee
Emma Howell
Anthon
R. B. Howell
Hanford
E. Daniels Sr
R. A. Miller
Otto Bischel
Clara Miller
Minnesota
Hans Sutcliff
Peterson
Mis
Kohlhagen
Anna Bischel
Deaconess Hospital
Chicago
Dr. Dumlet
General Villa
Mexico
Cherokee County
H. E. Johnson
Charley
G. J. Lewis
Harry Carlburg
Walter Lewis
Alice Karges
Ladies Aid Society
German Evangelical Church
Henry Glawe
Bert Dice
Everett Daniels
F. H. Diercks
Sioux Rapids
Fred Diercks
Mr. Diercks
BS Johnson
Gertrude
Hilda Selene
Lewis
Roy Whitney
C. H. Lockin Sr
Chas
Des Moines
Delano Anderson
Marathon
Chas. McCurdy
A. H. Rutherford
Sidney
Australia
Farmers National Bank
T. Kortz
Fort Dodge
Emma McManus
Lawrence Butterfield
Armstrong
John Murphy
Nancy Wilson
George Hansen
Roy Hill
Johnson Brothers
John Booth
J. C. Lockin
O. A. Royer
B. R. Wilson
J. C. Nelson
Alta Monday
Jacob Harold
H. H. Waddell
Dick Honsbruck
Mr. Harold
IL. P. Nelson
A. A. Daniels
Slayton
Ed Daniels
Sulphur Springs
Worthington
Olmstead
C. C. Alexander
Sentinel
R. S. O’neal
North Dakota
International Harvester Company
Wisconsin Lumber Co
Ole Poulson
California
A. H. Waddell
First National Bank
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